Press Releases

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation was warranted and overdue. Yet his exit raises more questions than it answers. It's still unclear who and what was known in the White House about his diplomatic discussions with Russia before then-President Obama left office. This entire episode reaffirms the need for an independent, bipartisan investigation into the influence Russia has had on our elections, our national security and the current occupant of the White House. Flynn's resignation marks a beginning, not an end. Read more »

Placing Tareck El-Aissami and his key front man Samark Jose Lopez Bello on the Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals list is an important move that will allow the United States to play a much tougher role in reversing the dramatically worsening political and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Read more »

President Trump's deceitful and likely traitorous National Security Adviser Michael Flynn should be fired, and at the very least, his access to classified information should be suspended immediately until a thorough investigation of his unauthorized diplomacy with Russia is completed. Read more »

Tonight's unanimous Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling is a proud moment for the rule of law and America's wise system of checks and balances. It's also a stinging rebuke to President Trump's authoritarian style of governing, and it forcefully proves that none of our co-equal branches of government will be bullied. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) has received a new appointment to the House Committee on the Budget, and two new Appropriations Committee assignments: one as Ranking Democrat on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, and the other, to the Energy and Water Subcommittee. These assignments will allow Wasserman Schultz to better serve veterans and their families, confront funding challenges in restoring the Everglades, and beat back attempts to take away or weaken health care coverage for tens of millions of Americans. Read more »

President Trump's most lasting imprint on America may well come from how his Supreme Court nominee defends our democratic rights as embodied in the Constitution. His initial pick is more troubling than inspiring in that regard. Based on his rulings, Neil Gorsuch far more often sides with corporate rights over those of employees and consumers. He's also sided against privacy and reproductive rights, as he did in the Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor cases. I stand strongly with other House Democrats in opposition to his nomination and urge the Senate to reject him for a seat on our nation's highest court. Read more »

This month, as we celebrate the indelible impact and achievement of our African-American brothers and sisters, we draw on their legacy as a source of strength to reinforce our own efforts to bend the arc of history towards justice and pursuit of a more perfect union. Read more »

Reports of an Iranian ballistic missile test over the weekend are a truly alarming development. If true, this would represent a violation of international law and U. N. Security resolutions. For that, Iran must be held accountable. If this reported ballistic missile testing action is not met with a clear and determined rebuke, Iran will take that silence as tacit consent to further destabilize a region already plagued by violence and escalating threats of it. Read more »

As his first act in office, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and told American women that in order to move forward, we must make equal pay for equal work a top priority. Unfortunately, his successor is moving us in the opposite direction. I am proud to have been an original cosponsor of that bill. But obviously, our fight was just beginning. Read more »

The fact that President Trump failed to even mention Jews or antisemitism in his statement commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day was insensitive, disappointing and trampled on the memory of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazi's during the Holocaust. But his omission is far more troubling in light of the fact that he chose that same day to ban Syrian refugees, halt all refugee admissions to the United States, and temporarily suspend all visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries. It's an egregious ignorance of history, at the very least. But regardless of that, these are unacceptable actions to take on any day. We weaken our nation by turning our back on those fleeing from religious, political and violent oppression. Read more »